March

(male) Transferred use of the surname. This has two origins: as a local name for someone who lived on the border between two territories, especially in the Marches between England and Wales or England and Scotland (from Norman French march ‘boundary’, of Germanic origin); and as a nickname for someone with some association with the month of March (Old French march(e), Latin (mensis) Martius, a derivative of Mars; compare Martin). In part this name may also have been adopted as a first name by association with the female names April, May, and June, bearing in mind that Mars, the roman god of war, after whom the month is named, is male.